Obstructive sleep apnea is a sleep disorder. It is the most common sleep-related breathing disorder. Patients with OSA often experience stop and start of breathing during their sleep cycle. OSA occurs when the throat muscles relax and obstruct the airways.
The shift work sleep disorder occurs when working at night and rotational shifts experience sleep deprivation. People whose shifts interfere or overlap with regular sleeping time cannot get adequate sleep because of work requirements and have to break their sleep, leading to insufficient sleep during their habitual sleep period.
What is Modvigil 200mg?
Modvigil 200mg contains Modafinil 200mg as its active ingredient. Modafinil helps combat excessive sleepiness because of certain sleep disorders, including narcolepsy, sleep apnea, and shift work sleep disorder.
How does Modvigil 200mg work?
Dopamine is a brain chemical and a neurotransmitter that activates pleasure, satisfaction, and motivation. Modvigil works on the Dopamine levels. It works by elevating the concentration of dopamine neurotransmitter in the brain by inhibiting the reuptake (reabsorption) of dopamine, a chemical in the brain, by binding to the dopamine reuptake pump (transporter that causes dopamine reuptake). It leads to extracellular dopamine levels. Modvigil stimulates and induces glutamatergic circuits while inhibiting GABA (Gamma-aminobutyric acid). GABA is a neurotransmitter that helps exchange signals in the brain.
What are the Uses and Benefits of Modvigil 200mg?
Touted as a wakefulness-promoting drug or agent, Modvigil 200mg is a stimulant to treat sleep disorders caused by narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea, or shift work sleep disorder. Doctors may prescribe it for other causes of sleep disorders or inadequate sleep during regular sleep hours.
It may help in extreme tiredness, fatigue, or lack of energy, as some patients reported benefiting from such conditions. It may help in hypersomnia treatment, a disorder where the patient cannot have meaningful sleep and may need a sleep of ten or more hours daily. Recent studies have revealed that Modvigil may help in curbing cocaine addiction and help patients recover from it.
What are the Safe Dosages of Modvigil?
The standard doses are Modvigil 100mg, Modvigil 200mg, and Modvigil 400mg. Your doctor may alter your dosage based on your response to the treatment. Follow the label or leaflet instructions or the prescription about the safe dosage of Modvigil. The doctor determines the Modvigil safe dosage based on the medical history and underlying health conditions.
Take the dosage at regular intervals, as mentioned in the prescription. Avoid overdosing, missing the dose, or taking less than the prescribed dose. It will harm your health and may not produce the desired results. The pharmacist will provide the dosage guidelines with every refill of Modvigil 200mg. Read it carefully and ask questions if you have any doubts.
Overdose and missed dose
If you think you have taken an overdose, contact your doctor immediately. If you have missed the dose and are within the dosage window, take it as soon as you recall. If it is almost time to take the next scheduled dose, skip the missed dose. Avoid taking twice as much as it can cause an overdose.
How to take Modvigil 200mg?
It is a convenient oral sleep disorder pill. Swallow the Modvigil tablet 200mg with water. Do not crush, split, chew, dissolve, or break it in the mouth. Take it once in the morning or one hour before your shift starts, as prescribed. You can take it with or without meals. Avoid junk, oily, fat-rich, heavy meals, as these will delay the Modvigil onset. The regular dose is one pill in 24 hours.
When Should I Avoid Modvigil 200mg or use it cautiously?
If you have anxiety or depression, mania, psychosis, or mental disorder, taking this medication may affect you adversely.
Talk to your doctor if you have heart, cardiovascular, lung, liver, or kidney problems. If you have hypertension, hypotension, or blood pressure problems, avoid the drug.
If you are allergic to Modvigil or its ingredient, Modafinil, avoid this medication. If you are allergic to other medicines related to sleep disorders, food, dye, or preservatives, you can skip this sleep disorder drug.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women may skip this sleep disorder treatment and look for alternatives that can keep their newborns safe.
Not suitable for children. Modvigil medication is for the prescribed person and is not to be shared with others, regardless of whether the person has a sleep disorder.
Avoid driving, riding, operating machines, or tasks that require alertness, as the medication may make you feel dizzy.
Drug interactions of Modvigil 200mg
Modvigil has an interaction history with the following medicines, and you may avoid consuming them when taking the treatment.
- Mental illness, psychotic disturbances, mental disorders
- Antidepressants, antibacterial medications, anxiety treatments
- Antifungals for treating fungal infections - Itraconazole, ketoconazole
- Antidepressants MAO (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) inhibitor medications - Nardil, Parnate, Marplan, Eldepryl
- Birth control pills
- Antibiotics to treat tuberculosis, such as rifampicin
- Birth control devices or implants that contain hormone
- Sleeping pills or sedatives
- Amphetamine or Dextroamphetamine
- Methylphenidate or Dexmethylphenidate
- Pemoline, Procarbazine
- Barbiturates - Phenobarbital
- Hypertension, hypotension medicines
- Epilepsy or fits medication – Carbamazepine, Phenytoin, phenobarbitone
- Medication to prevent blood clotting - Warfarin
- Diazepam
- Cyclosporine
- Medication to treat high blood pressure, heart ailments, or migraine, such as Propranolol
- Triazolam
It is not an exhaustive list but an indicative list. Many drugs may have an interaction history, some of which you may be taking. Talk to your doctor about Modvigil medications you take or have taken recently.
Avoid sleeping pills, non-prescription and OTC drugs, vitamin and herbal supplements, herbal products, mixtures, herbs, and dietary or protein supplements.
Avoid smoking, marijuana, alcohol, contraband, illegal drugs and substances, recreational drugs, or caffeine beverages like colas, energy drinks, coffee, or tea.
What are the Side effects of Modvigil 200mg?
The common side effects of Modvigil may subside as you get used to the doses. However, if they persist or get severe, seek medical attention and talk to your doctor immediately.
Common Modvigil 200mg Side Effects
- Lack of concentration
- Nervousness
- Confusion
- Headache
- Dizziness
- Giddiness
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Indigestion
- Fatigue
- Allergy and skin reactions
- Increased blood pressure
- Rash, fever, swollen limbs
- Diarrhea
- Sleeping difficulty
- Nose congestion and stuffiness
- Blurry vision and vision change
Severe Modvigil 200mg side effects
- Suicidal thoughts or mood changes
- Severe skin or allergic reactions
- Chest pain
- Breathlessness
- Fevers or flu-like symptoms
- Red or purple rashes, turning into blisters or peeling the skin
- Itching, burning
- A red rash with swollen face, tongue, lips, throat, lymph nodes in the neck or underarm
- Hallucination
- Fast or irregular heartbeat, pounding
- Swore throat, chills, fever
- Tremors
- Shaking
- Seizure
- Fainting